Glastonbury festival: charting a history of inflation
byThis article was first published at GoldMadeSimpleNews.com on Friday, 24 June 2011 Spare a thought this weekend for those intrepid revelers who have made…
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Market Thoughts: Commodities, U.S. Treasuries, Greece
byAccording to the mainstream press, the reason behind the present sell-off in commodities – and in many so-called ‘risk-assets’ (stupid really, all assets are…
Welfare and the case for honest money
byI do not doubt that the Government is sincere in its wish to make Britain “open for business” and to deliver greater life chances…
The Debt–Inflation Cycle and the Global Financial Crisis
byPreviously published in Global Policy, Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2011 London School of Economics and Political Science. Peter J. Boettke and Christopher J….
The Delayed Effect of Printing Money via Quantitative Easing
byGold reaches £913 per ounce If political leaders and central bankers think that they can curb the currency debasing effect of QE merely by…
Mervyn King’s “Operation Bernhard”
byThe UK is in sorry shape today. The British can at least take comfort in knowing that things are still not anywhere near as…
Inflation Explained
byYou might remember a remarkable YouTube from Omid Malekan, a few months ago, entitled Quantitative Easing Explained. Well, he has been busy again, with…
A Gedankenexperiment with Flour
byImagine a country where the average household routinely spends half its $100 income on buying in 4,000 calories a day of flour and half…
The Gold Standard and Monetary Freedom
by(This talk was delivered at a debate on whether “America Should Adopt the Gold Standard,” sponsored by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and the…
Zimbabwe now has lower inflation than UK and US!
byDo you remember when Zimbabwe was the country that had a $100 trillion dollar note but it was only worth a few US dollars?…